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@vikpaw one of the perks of being a BDM Vik... I develop the market how I see fit during the day And night

Let's hope the whole drink driving things they make an example of him and send him away... might not have than stupid grin on his face when he comes out... or even his face!

Fair enough @pcstru I accept all those points. Clear there is no personal thing going on can put that to bed. Respect you feel I and the article is wrong, others have felt it is right, others are mixed. That's the trials of speaking publicly. I'm always happy to be proved wrong, regardless of all this I'm thrilled that the blog elicited such responses for or against, and the bottom line is it has opened your eyes to the project which can only be a good thing! I accept that the article contains opinion on the future which cannot be taken as fact. I stand by the point that DX will come barring a government change at the election. As I say I hope this thread is still going and intend to revisit when it does. The blog stays, as is, as I still believe it is right, and will continue to do more on this and other subjects. I would LOVE contributions from yourself if you were interested at any time. You are outspoken and back what you believe which is important and you are knowledgeable about the sector. --- Anyways back to the OP!

Seems very Yes, Minister doesn't it.

John I literally just laughed out loud for a full 30 seconds at that! Brightened my day no end! Hats off to you sir, and of course it is an apology

In all schools I went to and worked in, Miss was what was used regardless, unless they used their surname and then the correct Miss or Mrs was used. There is a snifter of a point in titles distinguishing women from being married or not (not Ms obviously) so can see why some would not like that. We men after all don't have such a title to tell people we are married or not (prizes for the person to come up with one!)

@witch so are you Ms Witch or Ms W. Itch? Tehehe girly giggle

Bugger my apologies @JohnCondon should have mentioned you too.

a'hem... so should the replicated throughout the UK for equality? Therefore the Armed Forces are in for a shock. Knighthoods are buggered. This is and always has been a mild discipline keeper, worked well for ever why change it now? Lets not even wander into familiarity between students and staff... Are we absolutely sure this is the Telegraph... has more of a whiff of Daily Mail to me

Lets make it more awkward Calling @Bromcom-PR & @GraemeBC Because I am a wind up merchant deep down

BBC News - Bieber investigated over attempted robbery claim

And here... but only when my daughter is about... I assure you...

It was a security light for my garden... had one before is cheap but does the job.

I'm hoping someone has gotten the ironic reference to WWE Degeneration X - DX.

I'm sorry, can you clarify from your statement above that you a) think I am an idiot, b) think my blog is wrong, c) therefore my opinion is wrong? As opposed to you disagree with it? Your use of speech marks at describing me an education consultant implies an element of sarcasm... would you care to elaborate on that? Apologies if I have read wrong, that seems to be what you are saying and from that I can decide if this is still worth me being involved. I felt as have others that is was clear in my writing where I was describing items of DX (I'm liking this term I seem to have started by the way!) As described to me and elements of analysis and supposition. I'm sorry if you have not read it in that way. From the start I have very much looked to inform and provide an opinion based on what I know and will continue to do so openly. The writen statements by DfE or whoever are just one aspect of the story and you must know that they never alone tell the whole story. Elements have too come from conversations across the sector as well as taking into account trends here and elsewhere. You are a switched on chap I can tell so I suggest you get involved as early as you can and find out all the facts for yourself and form your own opinions. Maybe get involved with the ISB currently that is the best source of information on DX publicly accessible. Those meeting are always fun!

Hummm... really?

'Will happen' is a personal opinion based on what I have heard, know, experience and expertise. I wanted to say 'Will happen if the election goes a certain way' but loses its impact somewhat. But actually, I'm quite tired of having to defend myself. The blog was an opinion based on what I know, so take notice or don't take notice, I really couldn't care any more. You now have documents (older ones, I'm still investigating more recent ones) from DfE so you can have it from the horses mouth as it were. Interesting that now you have that you are still tearing into the opinion-based blog... but never mind. I'm sorry but I feel quite personally attacked at every post so far based on my opinions. In addition, you are not seeking any positives from this project, far from it you are looking for every reason for it to fail. This is quite a sad position to be in when the ideal of what this is trying to achieve is so positive. It might not realise all of these dreams, and knowing the government as we do, it probably won't, but how about getting behind this instead of saying we should scrap the whole thing and stay as we are for another 20 years (*Opinion, not fact). If I were a mod, I'd like to close this thread until May 2017 and then allow us to continue this discussion with what we know then, I really would, perhaps see who was right at a very basic level, although I wouldn't care if I was totally wrong as long as we had a decent system in place!! ---- Phillip, Matt, there is a lot of what you are saying that is very cultural rather than technical, the former actually being harder to change! This thing about Heads not wanting their data to go out because they don't know or fear what it contains, surely this a) is what I was talking about in the blog (bugger, I mentioned it again!) about protectionism of data, and b) isn't this a fundamental problem that should be solved anyway if there is less confidence that data is being entered incorrectly at source anyway? Just some thoughts for you!

Yep I agree, Firefly is the exception to the rule there. Well if we are talking about series that were great and shouldn't have been cancelled then there are many, already mentioned. The issue though is the series ends, filming has long wrapped up, then execs decide to can it...

I was thinking the same. With catch up TV now available... or even just record the whole season 1 on sky+ and then wait. If canned, delete!

I saw that yes. Sporting a brilliant tash!

Unfortunately when so many people watch it it will get renewed. Very easy for comedy as it is single episodes.

Nice spoiler there! But Peter Drinklage was fantastic he has been from the start but his end piece was pure perfection. Great actor

Last night's episode of GOT was amazing. GOT had a formula of 2 build up (poor) episodes then one amazing one. It was always going to be difficult with some many story lines to cater for.

I'm seeing what ISB process workflow documents are available, will come back with anything I can find. I'm also going to see if I can dig out DfE statements of intent and benefit analysis pieces they did as part of this project (assuming I am allowed to publish them... I might not yet). There is a huge amount of conversation around cost to schools. I'm confused where this has come from, at all. There will not be any cost to schools. This will be built and maintained and supported by your MIS supplier, this is the burden they (unfortunately) have. Imagine this as a free, yet mandated module of your MIS. In addition, just because it is complex, given it is replacing between 6 and 30 returns across the whole school sector, depending on the type of establishment you are, there is a tangible manpower cost saving. I have a great example too of maintaining information drip feed across the year when I implemented an integrated admissions system into the MIS (SIMS) years ago, where previously it was hand copied from one database to another, and the secretaries suddenly found themselves with 3 weeks spare they did not expect to have. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE ONLY! Translate this into not having to manage census and assessment returns (the actual returns) at the various times of the year, plus as a result when up and running staff will be cultured to entering information as if census is always ongoing and therefore as complete as possible as well as accurate, there will be no need to prepare data for census!

But is ridiculous if Lost was on now it would have been cancelled after EVERY season!!!